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    According to Greg Sandoval's C|Net News blog and the Los Angeles Times--Hollywood Studios has recently recruited AT&T in the everlasting fight against piracy.

    Privacy groups are on high-guard with recent rulings that may enable users to be identified regardless of a web site's privacy policy or even their consent. Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge (a privacy advocate), states that "AT&T is going to act like the copyright police, and that is going to make customers angry."

    AT&T is not the only group as such, but the alliance between the film studios and the AT&T's ISP service have set forth a goal "to develop anti-piracy technology that will target the most frequent offenders."

    The fight against online illegal filesharing just took a step up, but will it last?

    Source: C|Net News Blog
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    MORE ARTICALS
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    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...&sn=002&sc=870

    Oh, and I have AT&T btw LOL I am not happy about this.

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    hmm, if they have that kind of technology, why can't they catch internet predators and people who watch child porn?

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    Quote Originally Posted by asmithz View Post
    Looks like Gigi Sohn was right then.

    Why don't you post some news in your spare time, I mean your name is already orange
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    Quote Originally Posted by shosh View Post
    hmm, if they have that kind of technology, why can't they catch internet predators and people who watch child porn?
    No one is losing millions of dollars because their innocent child was a victim of a horrible monster. The record and movie industries smother the protective rights and investigations of the innocent to ensure their own hides and dirty money stay well protected into the night.

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    Damn it!! AT&T just bought my ISP!! Fuck!

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    I'm expecting a bear market trend for the AT&T stock in the next few days..
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    Quote Originally Posted by DefianceX View Post
    I'm expecting a bear market trend for the AT&T stock in the next few days..
    I don't. This probably won't have an effect on the overall market trend. I'm sure most people (including me) will not change ISP because of this new policy. And probably won't weigh (much) on consumer's decision to buy.

    The stockholders probably feel this way too, and would have no reason to speculate a drop in price (or maybe I'm just being optimistic )

    It probably would be good if prices did start going down. Then maybe they would reconsider their new partnership

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    Quote Originally Posted by delimare View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by shosh View Post
    hmm, if they have that kind of technology, why can't they catch internet predators and people who watch child porn?
    No one is losing millions of dollars because their innocent child was a victim of a horrible monster. The record and movie industries smother the protective rights and investigations of the innocent to ensure their own hides and dirty money stay well protected into the night.
    You beat me
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    Quote Originally Posted by mbucari1 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by DefianceX View Post
    I'm expecting a bear market trend for the AT&T stock in the next few days..
    I don't. This probably won't have an effect on the overall market trend. I'm sure most people (including me) will not change ISP because of this new policy. And probably won't weigh (much) on consumer's decision to buy.
    I would change ISP if AT&T is my current one. Perhaps majority of their customers wont. But seeing as illegal filesharers grow every year, it stands to reason that a large part of their userbase will take note of this and act accordingly I presume. Noone wants a "copyright police" as their internet service provider. At least I dont.
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